UnparallelledResources

BEE taps into the unique backgrounds of bright, deeply passionate, culturally and historically attuned natives, and works with them to provide an experience nonpariel.

PassionateTeam

BEE's tight-knit team of founders and partners bring a wealth of diversity of education, interests and experience to each and every journey. Our goal as a team is to make each custom experience more impactful than the last.

ExtraordinaryValue

We want to offer participants of all ages and socio-economic strata the opportunity to learn, to grow, and to be transformed. To accomplish this, we strive to make our prices the most competitive extant.

Be Bold. Be Inspired. BEE Global.

Transformational learning courses that inspire

Our Mission

BEE's mission is to broaden perspective and free minds through travel-based experiential learning.

Innovate

Innovation emanates from creativity. By helping students embrace independent thinking, we encourage uncommon depths of exploration which we hope will kindle the flames of creativity.

Illuminate

Proper education should do much more than increase a student's knowledge base. It should pollinate the mind and allow natural curiosity, joy, and inspiration to bloom. It should provide the nourishment of clarity and empower students to confidently question the status quo.

Inspire

Superior education + freedom + positive attitude all create fertile soil for inspiration. Our greatest innovators were also the most inspired. We create a unique environment to spark inspiration and work to keep it flowing.

Our current projects

De Xin SchoolVideo biographiesFall 2016

Kunming, CN

See how you can have amazing experiences, build relationships, learn, and grow while helping to remove the scourge of geographic and socio- economic discrimination

American Culture, Language, & College Prep

2|4 Weeks

New York City | Boston

Feel the heartbeat of America. Drink in its soul. Join us in an enlightening journey that will not only leave you with a much deeper understanding of what America is all about, but will help you feel closer than ever to real belonging. College preparation training and consulting is fundamental to this course.

Music Intensive

2 weeks&nbsp&nbsp Jan 18 - Jan 31 2016

Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

International singing soloist Ms. Maaja Roos will lead this exciting 2 week program designed to help college music majors enhance key aspects of their musical profile. Intensive group work combined with focused individual attention is designed to assist students in achieving personal musical breakthroughs.

English Language Intensive

4 Weeks July 1 - July 31 2016

Boston | New York City

Improve your fluency and learn the nuances of popular English in American culture. This intensive 4 week course will immerse you in American English so you can get to the "next level" of cultural assimilation.

NEW! Build your own experience

About

BEE (Beyond Experiential Education) is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BEE - Beyond Experiential Education - is a social enterprise focused on building community and fostering freedom of mind through deeply impactful experiential education. Our goal is to cultivate a global perspective and facilitate personal growth in powerful ways for our course participants. Additionally, we seek to help level the playing field of opportunity for all, by eliminating geographic and socio-economic bias.

Experiential education combines \"real life\" with classroom, blurring the lines between lesson and life. Success with this approach necessitates the dedication of passionate educators.

Support The road to real learning is especially challenging for many students who face poor nutrition, inadequate shelter, disempowering family lives, discrimination, societal unrest, and countless other obstacles. These obstacles detract from motivation and ability to focus, absorb, and connect ideas. The sturdy bridge that transverses these pitfalls is emotional & physical security. Our goal is to reinforce this bridge, and eliminate as many pitfalls as possible through various means of outreach and support.

It is BEE's goal to become a leader in the field of innovative experiential education by achieving superior educational results for each of our program participants.

We are committed

to building a bridge between Non-American and American education and culture.

We believe

in promoting cultural and educational cooperation between the USA and cities, towns, and villages around the globe.

Our goals

are to improve quality of life through experiential education by expanding students' personal development opportunities and enhancing the vitality of national cultures.

We have expertise

through the hard work and talents of our team, partners, and affiliates, to provide unparalled education and growth opportunities for participants.

We provide

students the opportunity to experience advanced and immersive cultural learning that results in increased self-knowledge - one of the most important parts of success.

Our focus

is to open young peoples' minds and allow deep learning through social services, language immersion, cultural training through genuine experience. and empathy.

Our People

We've assembled a dedicated team to help you achieve your goals.

Alyssa Li

Alyssa has a deep-rooted passion for experiential education, entrepreneurship, and connecting people. Over the past 12 years, she's undertaken a number of ambitious endeavors, including opening a new community focused school in China and holding international coordinator positions at several high-profile educational travel organizations. Alyssa holds a Masters degree in Service, Leadership and Management from the SIT Graduate Institute. She is devoted to innovation in education, and excited to offer world class experiential learning to students of all ages.

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Alyssa Li

Co-Founder

Joseph Witowsky

Joseph brings 20 years of cross-industry business development experience to the team at BEE. He's worked at both start-up and growth-phase finance & software companies. Joe's own unique experiences in travel and the impact they've had on his life-perspective are the motor behind his passion to provide unique experiential educational opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Joe has an interdisciplinary BS in finance, investments, and economics from Babson College and has studied biological sciences at University of South Florida.

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Joseph Witowsky

Advisor

Charlene Caprio

Charlene brings a broad range of education and experience to BEE as Greece Program Director. She holds a J.D. from Columbia University, a M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Skidmore College. She's lived and worked in many countries, taught in the Peace Corps and designed educational courses and retreats in Greece. She also wrote a guidebook for a Greek island and enjoys designing dynamic travel programs. Charlene remembers how her own study abroad experiences inspired her and believes that the seeds planted in students through experiential education help students grow to become leaders on a global level.

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Charlene Caprio

Director, European Progams

Simon Norton

Simon has been the Program Director of the SIT (School for International Training) and World Learning Youth Leadership & Peacebuilding Programs as well as the Co-Director the Vermont Governor’s Institute on Current Issues and Youth Activism for the last 13 years. He has been running global education programs with high school age youth since 1992. He co-teaches a Graduate course for 40-50 students at SIT entitled Youth Program Leadership & Design and is an accomplished teacher, trainer and facilitator of youth education, program design, leadership, teambuilding, global issues, peacebuilding and dialogue, civics, communication skills and kayaking. Simon has worked with youth from more than 150 countries and all 50 U.S. states, and travelled extensively for fun and work, running youth programs in Uganda, Rwanda, Iraq, Serbia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Ecuador, Australia and Panama. He regularly runs youth program capacity building staff trainings for his own teams, as well as assorted trainings and consulting for many other organizations. He has a Bachelors Degree in World Issues from the School for International Training, and a Masters in Global Education from Harvard University. Si lives in Zephyr Cove, Nevada at Lake Tahoe.

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Simon Norton

Advisor

Tina Yin

Tina has worked and volunteered in several capacities dealing with inter-cultural affairs and communications. She holds a BA in Multinational Bank Management from Yunnan University Department of Finance and Economics. Through volunteering her time as a registered member of Chinese Young Volunteers Association and TCG Nordica (KM), a Scandinavian cross-cultural institution, Tina has developed a true love for intercultural education and awareness. She brings this love and dedication to her role as BEE Global China Program Coordinator.

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Tina Yin

China Program Coordinator

August Dao

August Dao is a recent alumnus of Harvard College, graduating with a bachelors in Chemistry. As a former Senior Student Coordinator, Outreach & Recruitment Research Leader, and Hometown Recruiter for Harvard's Admissions & Financial Aid Office, he has worked extensively with prospective students, planned on-campus events and programming for current College students, and recruited potential applicants from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. As a private educational consultant, August provides professional services ranging from SAT test prep, to all others areas spanning the college application process (i.e. essay editing/feedback, interview prep, and supplemental materials) to assist students in gaining admission to competitive schools in the U.S. He plans to pursue an MBA and start his nonprofit dedicated to empowering youths with independence, agency, and equal educational opportunity.

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August Dao

USA Program Coordinator

Maaja Roos

Maaja Roos was born in Berlin, of both German and Estonian heritage. Initially trained as a pianist, Ms. Roos went on from an international solo career to becoming a choral conductor. She was invited by Columbia University to form the SIPA Chorale, taking the best American and international students to sing in ten different languages, touring the U.S. and Canada, and premiering works by Lucas Foss and Arvo Pärt at Lincoln Center.